to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)
information; experience; observation; seeing and hearing
to rule over; to govern; to command; to integrate; to consolidate; to unite
to gather; to collect; to assemble
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to feel pain
treatment; reception; service; working conditions; salary; pay
tumor; tumour; swelling; boil; abscess
unique; rare; exceptional; unparalleled; incomparable
sole; single; solo; independence; singleness; singularity
battlefield; battleground
(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means
student (esp. a university student)
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable
(bearing a) close resemblance; vivid reminder (e.g. of the past); dim; faint; vague
extreme; excessive; terrible; intense; severe; serious
reinforcement; strengthening
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
good humour (humor); good mood
beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully
driving off a troublesome person; getting rid of a nuisance
firm adherence to one's principles; chastity (of a woman)
other party; other side; ahead; in front; destination
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
transfer student; student changing schools
whether one likes it or not; whether willing or not; willy-nilly
to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie
tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training
denouncing; calling (e.g. somebody a thief); branding (as)
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)